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From: ndeng@EULER.BERKELEY.EDU (Nan Deng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Help Wanted: Hard Disk Not Ready?
Message-ID: <8909130841.AA14701@euler.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 13 Sep 89 08:41:55 GMT
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Recently I bought a 25 MHz 386 and encountered a weird problem about the 
hard disk. The mother board is made by MICRONICS with PHOENIX 386 BIOS
PLUS ver 1.10 10. The hard disk is CONNOR C3104 (104 MB) partitioned into
3 logical disks. The problem is: when I use the "Turbo" mode (i.e.  memory
cache is on), sometimes I get a message saying "disk C is not ready. Abort,
Retry, Ignore?" (Like I am unpacking some archives, especially for large
files). But when I turn off the cache, then I have no problem at all. Is 
there anything wrong in my setup or the hardware? Has anybody in the net
experienced similar problems? Any pointer would be greatly appreciated.
(Especially the ones from the manufacturer or people have experience with
CONNOR hard disks).

BTW, the hard disk controller comes with the disk. CORETEST 2.7 test showes
the throughput is around 850KByte/Sec. Does the result make any sense?

Nan Deng
ndeng@euler.berkeley.edu